A U. of I. student reported that she had been the victim of a scam phone call around 3 p.m. Wednesday. The caller claimed to be from the Chinese customs service and that the office had caught someone who had opened fraudulent bank accounts in the student’s name. During the course of the call, the student gave a number of personal details to the caller, but no money was transferred.

Travell D. Washington, 18, no address provided, was arrested at 10:53 p.m. Thursday in the 600 block of East University Avenue, Champaign, for theft. Washington was identified as the person who minutes earlier had stolen a bicycle from the Coordinated Science Laboratory, 1308 W. Main St., Urbana.